Amy Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3282-5034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. By Justin Randolph
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South . By Michael Ayers Trotti
Journal Article The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti Get access The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xi plus 251pp. $32.95). Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Journal Article Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Get access Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Paper $32.50. Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Without Sanctuary: The Symbolic Representation of Lynching in Photography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Young Adult Perceptions of Internet Communications and the Grooming Concept
Research of young people shows a lack of understanding of the term grooming in online communications and that internet risks are taken because internet literacy is poor for this group. However, limited research has investigated the perceptions of young adults in this context. The aim of this study was to understand young adults' perceptions of risk, their internet behaviors, and understanding of the grooming concept. Furthermore, to understand th…
Somebody do Something!”: Lynching Photographs, Historical Memory, and the Possibility of Sympathetic Spectatorship
This paper traces the history of one specific photograph and its exhibition over time from the 1930s through the 1980s: that of the lynching of ‘Bootjack’ McDaniels, tortured to death by a white mob in Duck Hill, Mississippi, in 1937. I use that history to reflect more broadly on how lynching photographs have shaped popular consciousness about racist violence at different moments in time. They are able to do so, in good part, because of their ico…
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
In Blood and Faith Damon T. Berry offers an “intellectual and religious history” of white nationalism, which he defines as an ethnonationalist movement dedicated to preservation of the white race beyond the confines of the nation-state (p. 11). Although the term white nationalism first came into being in the 1990s, leading other scholars to locate its roots as a movement in that decade, Berry argues that the ideas that sustain it were germinated …
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. By Anders Walker
Anders Walker has written a remarkable literary history of the Civil Rights Movement that details the responses of prominent Black and White writers to the prospect of a racially integrated society, as established in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown was premised on the notion that racial segregation had stunted African American progress and produced, in African American communities, a pathological culture …
Timothy B. Tyson. The Blood of Emmett Till
The brutal murder of young Emmett Till in 1955 stands as one of the most outrageous crimes of the twentieth century. The case has inspired a rich and substantial literature, including Mamie Till-Mobley’s 2003 memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America; John Edgar Wideman’s searing 2016 book, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File; and Deverny Anderson’s comprehensive history of the case, published in 2015, E…
The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals of White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South
From 1890s to the 1930s, white mobs tortured and killed thousands of African Americans across the South. These lynchings, even those committed by the smallest of mobs, were ritualistic and performative, enacting and reinforcing the core beliefs of white supremacy. The narratives and photographs produced after lynchings likewise created and circulated representations of white domination and black subordination. Lynching was thus more than a social…
Lynching
Lynching refers to an act of vigilantism, in which a group of persons punish an alleged crime outside the legal system, with community sanction. It has been practiced across the globe and has long historical roots, but it most commonly refers to acts of racial terrorism in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lynch mobs targeted racial and ethnic minorities as a means to establish and maintain white authority in moments of…
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
Journal Article They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Get access They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. By Kidada E. Williams. (New York: New York University Press, 2012. xii, 281 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State UniversityNormal, Illinois [email protected] …
Southern Africa: Old treacheries and new deceits
Stephen Chan's vivid, polygonal description of the interconnectedness of Southern Africa chronicles the relationship between national and regional politicians and policies. In this region, nothing is as it seems: Mandela is not a saint; Mugabe not a tyrant; Mbeki was not blind to Mugabe's violent oppression; and Zuma is not merely a vulgar populist. Chan's account seeks to humanize the region by revealing these often misrepresented African carica…
Nelson Mandela: A very short introduction
Elleke Boehmer's addition to the Very Short Introduction Series portrays the life of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, providing a complete narrative of the man behind the Madiba magic. Mandela has fulfilled a variety of roles – diligent student, city slicker, dashing guerrilla, political prisoner, messianic saviour – in his time as lawyer, activist, politician, freedom fighter, reconciler, leader, and finally…
Faculty Publications 2009
t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Lynching, Crime, and the Law in Postbellum America
Bruce E. Baker, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871–1947. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2008. John D. Bessler, Legacy Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minneso
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
A Spectacular Secret is an impressive cultural and literary study of lynching's oppressive power at the turn of the last century. Jaqcueline Goldsby, an English professor, argues that lynching persisted in American life not simply as a primeval expression of southern racism, but also as a national phenomenon that operated through the “cultural logic” of modernity. That is, lynching coincided with and was sustained through other turn-of-the-centur…
Peter Stanfield. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.
Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy
This essay argues that lynching photographs constructed and perpetuated white supremacist ideology by creating permanent images of a controlled white citizenry juxtaposed to images of helpless and powerless black men. These images gained further cultural force because they co‐existed within a host of conventions and assumptions about photography, including the expectation that photographs revealed objective truth. I argue that although lynching p…
Mental illness depiction in children's films
Forty‐nine children's (G‐ and PG‐rated) films were viewed and rated with respect to the depiction of mental illnesses. Material about mental illnesses was included in 33 (67%) of these films. Twelve (24%) had one or more characters labeled as having a mental illness; an additional 21 films contained references to mental illnesses. Characters with mental illnesses tended to be male, adult, Caucasian, single or of unknown marital status, and identi…
Making numbers count: The early development of numerical inferences
Two experiments examined preschool children's ability to draw inferences about numerosity from correspondences between sets. In Experiment 1,3- and 4-year-old children made numerical inferences about a hidden set from their own counts of a corresponding visible set and also from numerical information about that set stated by the experimenter. Experiment 2 contrasted a count condition with a move condition, in which children's attention was not ex…
The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals of White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South
From 1890s to the 1930s, white mobs tortured and killed thousands of African Americans across the South. These lynchings, even those committed by the smallest of mobs, were ritualistic and performative, enacting and reinforcing the core beliefs of white supremacy. The narratives and photographs produced after lynchings likewise created and circulated representations of white domination and black subordination. Lynching was thus more than a social…
Mental illness depiction in children's films
Forty‐nine children's (G‐ and PG‐rated) films were viewed and rated with respect to the depiction of mental illnesses. Material about mental illnesses was included in 33 (67%) of these films. Twelve (24%) had one or more characters labeled as having a mental illness; an additional 21 films contained references to mental illnesses. Characters with mental illnesses tended to be male, adult, Caucasian, single or of unknown marital status, and identi…
Making numbers count: The early development of numerical inferences
Two experiments examined preschool children's ability to draw inferences about numerosity from correspondences between sets. In Experiment 1,3- and 4-year-old children made numerical inferences about a hidden set from their own counts of a corresponding visible set and also from numerical information about that set stated by the experimenter. Experiment 2 contrasted a count condition with a move condition, in which children's attention was not ex…
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
Journal Article They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Get access They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. By Kidada E. Williams. (New York: New York University Press, 2012. xii, 281 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State UniversityNormal, Illinois [email protected] …
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
A Spectacular Secret is an impressive cultural and literary study of lynching's oppressive power at the turn of the last century. Jaqcueline Goldsby, an English professor, argues that lynching persisted in American life not simply as a primeval expression of southern racism, but also as a national phenomenon that operated through the “cultural logic” of modernity. That is, lynching coincided with and was sustained through other turn-of-the-centur…
Young Adult Perceptions of Internet Communications and the Grooming Concept
Research of young people shows a lack of understanding of the term grooming in online communications and that internet risks are taken because internet literacy is poor for this group. However, limited research has investigated the perceptions of young adults in this context. The aim of this study was to understand young adults' perceptions of risk, their internet behaviors, and understanding of the grooming concept. Furthermore, to understand th…
Making numbers count: The early development of numerical inferences
Two experiments examined preschool children's ability to draw inferences about numerosity from correspondences between sets. In Experiment 1,3- and 4-year-old children made numerical inferences about a hidden set from their own counts of a corresponding visible set and also from numerical information about that set stated by the experimenter. Experiment 2 contrasted a count condition with a move condition, in which children's attention was not ex…
Mental illness depiction in children's films
Forty‐nine children's (G‐ and PG‐rated) films were viewed and rated with respect to the depiction of mental illnesses. Material about mental illnesses was included in 33 (67%) of these films. Twelve (24%) had one or more characters labeled as having a mental illness; an additional 21 films contained references to mental illnesses. Characters with mental illnesses tended to be male, adult, Caucasian, single or of unknown marital status, and identi…
Peter Stanfield. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.
Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy
This essay argues that lynching photographs constructed and perpetuated white supremacist ideology by creating permanent images of a controlled white citizenry juxtaposed to images of helpless and powerless black men. These images gained further cultural force because they co‐existed within a host of conventions and assumptions about photography, including the expectation that photographs revealed objective truth. I argue that although lynching p…
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
A Spectacular Secret is an impressive cultural and literary study of lynching's oppressive power at the turn of the last century. Jaqcueline Goldsby, an English professor, argues that lynching persisted in American life not simply as a primeval expression of southern racism, but also as a national phenomenon that operated through the “cultural logic” of modernity. That is, lynching coincided with and was sustained through other turn-of-the-centur…
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Lynching, Crime, and the Law in Postbellum America
Bruce E. Baker, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871–1947. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2008. John D. Bessler, Legacy Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minneso
Faculty Publications 2009
t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…
Southern Africa: Old treacheries and new deceits
Stephen Chan's vivid, polygonal description of the interconnectedness of Southern Africa chronicles the relationship between national and regional politicians and policies. In this region, nothing is as it seems: Mandela is not a saint; Mugabe not a tyrant; Mbeki was not blind to Mugabe's violent oppression; and Zuma is not merely a vulgar populist. Chan's account seeks to humanize the region by revealing these often misrepresented African carica…
Nelson Mandela: A very short introduction
Elleke Boehmer's addition to the Very Short Introduction Series portrays the life of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, providing a complete narrative of the man behind the Madiba magic. Mandela has fulfilled a variety of roles – diligent student, city slicker, dashing guerrilla, political prisoner, messianic saviour – in his time as lawyer, activist, politician, freedom fighter, reconciler, leader, and finally…
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
Journal Article They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Get access They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. By Kidada E. Williams. (New York: New York University Press, 2012. xii, 281 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State UniversityNormal, Illinois [email protected] …
Lynching
Lynching refers to an act of vigilantism, in which a group of persons punish an alleged crime outside the legal system, with community sanction. It has been practiced across the globe and has long historical roots, but it most commonly refers to acts of racial terrorism in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lynch mobs targeted racial and ethnic minorities as a means to establish and maintain white authority in moments of…
Timothy B. Tyson. The Blood of Emmett Till
The brutal murder of young Emmett Till in 1955 stands as one of the most outrageous crimes of the twentieth century. The case has inspired a rich and substantial literature, including Mamie Till-Mobley’s 2003 memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America; John Edgar Wideman’s searing 2016 book, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File; and Deverny Anderson’s comprehensive history of the case, published in 2015, E…
The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals of White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South
From 1890s to the 1930s, white mobs tortured and killed thousands of African Americans across the South. These lynchings, even those committed by the smallest of mobs, were ritualistic and performative, enacting and reinforcing the core beliefs of white supremacy. The narratives and photographs produced after lynchings likewise created and circulated representations of white domination and black subordination. Lynching was thus more than a social…
Somebody do Something!”: Lynching Photographs, Historical Memory, and the Possibility of Sympathetic Spectatorship
This paper traces the history of one specific photograph and its exhibition over time from the 1930s through the 1980s: that of the lynching of ‘Bootjack’ McDaniels, tortured to death by a white mob in Duck Hill, Mississippi, in 1937. I use that history to reflect more broadly on how lynching photographs have shaped popular consciousness about racist violence at different moments in time. They are able to do so, in good part, because of their ico…
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
In Blood and Faith Damon T. Berry offers an “intellectual and religious history” of white nationalism, which he defines as an ethnonationalist movement dedicated to preservation of the white race beyond the confines of the nation-state (p. 11). Although the term white nationalism first came into being in the 1990s, leading other scholars to locate its roots as a movement in that decade, Berry argues that the ideas that sustain it were germinated …
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. By Anders Walker
Anders Walker has written a remarkable literary history of the Civil Rights Movement that details the responses of prominent Black and White writers to the prospect of a racially integrated society, as established in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown was premised on the notion that racial segregation had stunted African American progress and produced, in African American communities, a pathological culture …
Young Adult Perceptions of Internet Communications and the Grooming Concept
Research of young people shows a lack of understanding of the term grooming in online communications and that internet risks are taken because internet literacy is poor for this group. However, limited research has investigated the perceptions of young adults in this context. The aim of this study was to understand young adults' perceptions of risk, their internet behaviors, and understanding of the grooming concept. Furthermore, to understand th…
Without Sanctuary: The Symbolic Representation of Lynching in Photography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Journal Article Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Get access Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Paper $32.50. Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South . By Michael Ayers Trotti
Journal Article The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti Get access The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xi plus 251pp. $32.95). Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. By Justin Randolph
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